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Who is a Kashmiri? *Asha Kachru |
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![]() Now I read and hear from secular friends all over here in south India, where I live and work as a development activist, that Azadi should be given to the Kashmiris. My dear historian friend Gangadharan just coolly told me a few days back, while I was in Kerala, that we, the Kashmiri Pundits should just settle down somewhere else and give these jehadis their Azadi. He then added that these jehadis will never learn, let them suffer at the hands of Pakistan, then in another 10 years they will want to return to India again. Meanwhile I have gone through the paper written by Arundhati Roy for the Tribune, august 2008. I am surprised that she too wants the Kashmiris to have Azadi. Which kashmiris are they all talking about? Where are the not fanatically religious Kashmiris, the Hindus, the Muslims, the Sikhs, the Dogras, the Ladhakis, the Gujjars etc. etc.? Why have we allowed these separatists so much voice all these years? They have partitioned (the creation of Pakistan itself was a totally wasteful idea and a pain in the ass for so many now) the Indian sub-continent already on the base of one religion and now again we follow the same route? And all this the secularists in India are supporting? I am totally confused about their understanding of a secular state. I am angry and wonder what their understanding of justice is like? I fear all of them are being selfish. They want to be placated as progressive, by being on the side of the "Minorities", all except Hindu Minority of Kashmiri Pundits! I find this a misogynistic trend. Though I too am generally angry at the way our state forces go around with the common man/woman, but instead of only talking about the millions spent on security forces in Kashmir and their horrible deeds, why not think in positive terms and help get more of non-Muslim Indians get settled in that troubled area and be harsher with the Islamic fundamentalists. This will not give the separatists the hope to divide. It was a Kashmiri Pundit like J.L. Nehru, who did not help take final decision and close the chapter then itself, when the first insurgents from Afghanistan, supported by Pakistan, had already occupied half of J&K state. Instead he wanted a plebiscite to take place, when conditions are normal. He had good Muslim friends and he trusted them. But today we can learn from this incident that you cannot trust Muslims, due to their fundamental un-conditional solidarity with their community members, because they are Islamists in first place than anyone/anything else. And as a woman, I have a lot to loose and fear, if Islam becomes dominant. I have already written about that earlier. Here I ask Muslims to tell me how I and others, who really do not believe in religious sentiments taking over daily lives of people, can trust them and their deeds.Some questions to Muslims:
(Abu El Fadel, "the great theft") "The whole tunnelled mindset of a section of the Muslims must be examined not only in the context of the attack on Taslima Nasreen but in a much larger context of attacks on Salman Rushdie and the British socio-political system for giving him knighthood a few months back. The problem of Islam is not just MIM or a group of fundamentalists. Its problem is its intellectual failure to negotiate between faith, reason and the scientific criticism." Kancha Ilaiah in Deccan Chronical of 22/23 August 2007: |
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Prior to that she lived in Germany for 22 yeras and was a Scientific Officer in the German Informatics Center GMD at Bonn. She may have been the first third world woman to have been a member of a European City Council with the Greens in Bonn city in Gernany. |
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U are judging islam by the virtue of some one whose name sounds muslim. judge islam by understanding it. Regarding the kashmir issue u pandits have always been traitors. The freedom struggle is not abt religion it is abt the freedom, equal rights and justice. I have learned a lot of so-called hindu muslim bhai chara in kashmir. u pandits used muslims for slavery. There were no provisions for muslims in higher govt posts. They were always supressed by the economic barriers created by u.
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Leaving behind ur bhai chara, when kashmiri pandits raised voice when lakhs of muslims were murdered in fake RA-indian encounters. when our sisters were raped in kunanposhpora for which they still dream of justice,
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where was ur bhai chara to say a single word in favor if them. when innocent sikhs and 26 kashmiris were murdered in chatisingh massacre and pathribal by indian terrorists A.K.A indian army and when 56 pple were murdered in bhijbehara massacre and when 400 homes were burn down in sopore and when our sisters were raped and murdered in shopian and mass graves in kupwara were was ur bhai chara.
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Do u ever have raised voice for justice. u and ur terrorist india always used kashmiri muslims as slaves. But this will not go far. Insha Allaha we will be free independent nation, Republic of jammu and Kashmir soon.
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Do u ever have raised voice for justice. u and ur terrorist india always used kashmiri muslims as slaves. But this will not go far. Insha Allaha we will be free independent nation, Republic of jammu and Kashmir soon.
Added By shan anjum